Transcript of "Stages of the Holocaust"

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Anti-Semitism / Stages of the Holocaust World History

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History of Anti-Semitism <ul><li>Cultural differences made the Jews standout </li></ul><ul><li>Jews generally lived in close-knit communities </li></ul><ul><li>Have been demonized, discriminated against by Christians for 2000 years </li></ul><ul><li>Christianity needed Judaism as a contrast - to make Christianity look better, to act as a scapegoat </li></ul>

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History of Anti-Semitism <ul><li>Renaissance/Reformation - Jews had to wear badges or cones on head, in Italy and Germany they were separated into ghettos </li></ul><ul><li>Spanish Inquisition </li></ul><ul><li>17th-18th Century tensions eased </li></ul>

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Anti-Semitism in Germany <ul><li>.08% of population (~500,000) </li></ul><ul><li>Fully integrated into Germany society </li></ul><ul><li>Supported WWI and the German Empire </li></ul><ul><li>Mostly lived in large cities </li></ul>

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Boycott of Jewish Businesses <ul><li>1933 - Germany </li></ul><ul><li>Sets up idea that Jews are not Germans and isolates them </li></ul>

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SA pickets, wearing boycott signs, block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. The signs read: &quot;Germans, defend yourselves against the Jewish atrocity propaganda, buy only at German shops!&quot; and &quot;Germans, defend yourselves, buy only at German shops!&quot;

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Two Nazi stormtroopers stand guard in front of the H. L. Heimann store in Bopfingen, to prevent would-be shoppers from violating the Nazi boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.